Modern English IV - OEBAA1724Z
Title: Modern English IV
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2021
Semester: both
E-Credits: 4
Hours per week, examination: 0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: PhDr. Klára Lancová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Klára Lancová, Ph.D.
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Annotation -
The aim of the course is to develop the four basic language skills further from the B2+ to C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. This is the third stage of a six-semester course. The teaching is based on systematic work with a course-book. There is special emphasis on accuracy, fluency, clarity and complexity of expression.
Last update: Esserová Kateřina, DiS. (24.09.2019)
Descriptors

Online teaching takes place on the Google Classroom and Zoom platforms. All of the relevant links will be sent to signed up students before the beginning of the summer semester via e-mail.

Online or e-mail consultations with the teacher are available throughout the whole semester.

Last update: Lancová Klára, PhDr., Ph.D. (28.01.2021)
Course completion requirements -

credit test 70%, essay

Last update: Lancová Klára, PhDr., Ph.D. (24.10.2019)
Literature -

Povinná literatura:

Bell, Jan; Gower, Roger. Advanced Expert Coursebook, 3rd edition. Pearson 2014.

Vince, Michael. Advanced Language Practice. Macmillan 2003. (or more recent editions)

 

Doporučená literatura

BELL, J; KENNY, N. Advanced Expert Student´s Resource Book, Pearson 2015.
McCARTHY; O'DELL, F. English Idioms in Use. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
McCARTHY; O'DELL, F. English Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
FOLEY, M.; HALL, D. Longman Advanced English Grammar. Longman, 2003.
HEWINGS, M. Advanced Grammar in Use. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Last update: Lancová Klára, PhDr., Ph.D. (24.10.2019)
Syllabus

UNIT 7 - Values

part A: Home matters

part B: Seeing the world

Language input

·         easily confused words

·         home and family idiomatic expressions

·         cleft sentences / emphasis

·         punctuation

Language input

·         TRAVEL vocabulary

·         past tenses with hypothetical meaning

·         wish clauses

Vince self-study

·         G14: Emphasis

·         WP7: expressions with BY, DO, HAVE, idioms with body parts, verbs of seeing

Vince self-study

·         G9: Unreal time and subjunctives

·         V2: travel and movement

·         V4: places

UNIT 8 - A Rich Life

part A: Mixing business and pleasure

part B: A means to an end?

Language input

·         BUSINESS collocations + fixed phrases

·         compounds and prepositions

·         inversion

·         fronting

Language input

·         spending, investing and giving

·         comparatives and superlatives

·         other ways of comparison

Vince self-study

·         G13: Inversion

·         V7: work

  

UNIT 9 - The World of Science

part A: Personal challenges

part B: Brain power

Language input

·         SPACE collocations

·         ways of seeing

·         idioms with like

·         reported speech

Language input

·         the mind vocabulary

·         dependent prepositions

·         prepositions + gerund

Vince self-study

·         G16: reported speech

·         V16: Technology

Vince self-study

·         G21: verbs + prepositions

·         G22: prepositions
Last update: Esserová Kateřina, DiS. (24.09.2019)